Psycho-pedagogical Training Needs of University Teaching Staff – A Comparative Study

We have proposed to present a practical approach on the psycho-pedagogical training needs of university teaching, starting from analyzing the training needs of the academic staff who works now in a globalized and competitive world. The results of the study were obtained by applying a written questionnaire to subjects who work in different universities from Romania and Spain. The study included a total of 485 people from four universities in Spain and Romania. The results obtained by analyzing the responses of the subjects included in our sample have showed that both group of teachers – from Romania an Spain – have the same opinions regarding the psycho-pedagogical training needs. The teachers training need in order to properly manage their tasks in schools is acknowledged by the education practitioners as well as the decision makers and key policy makers.